Bath Rugby recently filed a scoping application https://bit.ly/2ZyCKgh for the Environmental Impact Assessment which they will be required to submit with their substantive planning application. This suggests that they are on track to submit a planning application in the foreseeable future. Bath Rugby have been consultative and open in their approach to Bath Preservation Trust…

We have been pleased to have been consulted on pre-application plans for the redevelopment of Twerton Park Football Club and have responded in detail to the project team. You can read our responses here and here. In general we support the redevelopment and regeneration of this part of Twerton High Street but have some concerns…

It has been drawn to our attention that people have been suggesting at hustings that Bath Preservation Trust (BPT) is ‘anti’ environmental measures to increase energy efficiency to properties. These people (including potentially prospective Councillors) are misinformed. Seven years ago, two years before the Council managed to produce its own sustainable homes retrofitting guidance, BPT…

We were very disappointed to attend the last Development Management Committee and to see the councillors approve the latest version of the Chivers House scheme (95 residential units in 2 blocks at 6 and 7 storeys high) despite the planning officers recommendation to refuse the scheme on the basis of loss of industrial space and…

Have you an architectural design project or idea you’d like to discuss with an impartial expert? Ask an Architect is an excellent design advice service offered by the Royal Institute of British Architects in partnership with Bath Preservation Trust to support design projects in the city of Bath and our next sessions are on 27 April. Visitors are…